chpater 2

what is cultural relativism?

• values beliefs & practice of culture should be understood based on culture

• value trades & practice of culture should be NOT based on culture

The organization of written or spoken symbols into a standardized system is?

• culture

• language

The shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in certain situations?

• Norms

• values

What are shared beliefs about what is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable?

• values

• beliefs

What is ethnocentrism?

• One’s own group is better then other cultures

• Most groups are bad

What are the 2 types of norms?

• material culture

• Folkways and mores

a group of interdependent people who have organized in such a way as to share common culture and a feeling of unity is

• society

• culture

what the most complex level of culture?

• civilization

• values

what are certain features developed to ensure the fulfillment of some needs of society and are common to all cultures

• culture universal

• material culture

Groups create these to enforce their cultural values?

• values

• norms